The application of lime on the soil surface is necessary in some agricultural situations. The objective of this work was to verify changes in chemical attributes of a medium texture soil as a result of lime application with and without amending. The experiment was carried out in a laboratory setting, in PVC columns, in a completely randomized design, with a 2 x 4 factorial design and a control, with four replicates, totaling 36 columns. The treatments were the combination of two lime rates (4 and 2 t ha-1) and four types of lime application (on surface without amending, and amending in layers of 0 to 5; 0 to 10 and 0 to 20 cm depths), in addition to the control, to which lime was not applied. After 326 days of soil incubation with lime, there was a corrective effect from the lime until 5 cm or 10 cm below the depth in which there was the application or amending. The application of lime resulted in increases of soil base saturation until 10 cm of depth, and until 40 cm of depth when the lime was amended in the layers of 0 to 5, 0 to 10 or 0 to 20 cm depth.
liming; soil acidity; pH; base saturation; calcium; magnesium